The magnets in HDDs are some of the strongest magnets you can find. I rip those out when I can, but I’m a packrat
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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoA good smack with a hammer then trash like any other electronic.
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Disassemble the drive, crack/scratch the platters, trash like any other electronic
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good4Nuthin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fyi, i -did- dissasemble the drive, remove the magnets from the head assembly, and scratched tf out of both sides of the platters. :)
Also, re the price, with the discount i paid the same for the drive i ordered that i paid for the same size/model last BF, although this one had twice the cache. :) :)
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s not recycling.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
In Germany we don’t really have the concept of landfills.
Here usually everything is recycled to some degree.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s pretty awesome!